Domestic Slavery Quotes

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

Thus, if this document condemned our domestic slavery as an unlawful and consequently immoral practice, the bishops could not have accepted it without being bound to refuse the sacraments to all who were slave holders unless they manumitted their slaves; yet, if you look to the prelates who accepted the document, for the acceptation was immediate and unanimous: you will find, 1st the Archbishop of Baltimore ... 2d, the Bishop of Bardstown ... 3d, the Bishop of Charleston ... 4th, the Bishop of St. Louis ... 5th, the Bishop of Mobile ... 6th, the Bishop of New Orleans ... and, 7th the Bishop of Nashville ... they all regarded the letter as treating of the "slave-trade," and not as touching "domestic slavery." I believe, sir, we may consider this to be pretty conclusive evidence as to the light in which that document is viewed by the Roman Catholic Church.

Marriage is such a lottery …. the poor woman is virtually a slave to her husband.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth.